Nematode Capilaridae in the Tongue of Cerdocyon Thous of Free Life in Brazil
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Original Article ISSN 1984-2961 (Electronic) www.cbpv.org.br/rbpv Braz. J. Vet. Parasitol., Jaboticabal, v. 27, n. 4, p. 531-544, oct.-dec. 2018 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-296120180078 Nematode capilaridae in the tongue of Cerdocyon thous of free life in Brazil Nematoide capilaridae na língua de Cerdocyon thous de vida livre no Brasil Raul Henrique da Silva Pinheiro1; Isabella Bittencourt Pires Chaves2; Rogério Antonio Ribeiro Rodrigues1, Érika Branco2; Ana Rita de Lima2; Elane Guerreiro Giese1* 1 Laboratório de Histologia e Embriologia Animal, Instituto da Saúde e Produção Animal, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia – UFRA, Belém, PA, Brasil 2 Laboratório de Pesquisa Morfológica Animal, Instituto da Saúde e Produção Animal, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia – UFRA, Belém, PA, Brasil Received July 18, 2018 Accepted September 05, 2018 Abstract Studies of helminths in road-killed wild animals are still uncommon but may provide promising results since they can identify the parasites in juvenile and adult hosts and meet the recommendations of current discussions on bioethics that prioritize alternative methods for the use of animals. This study evaluated threeCerdocyon thous individuals that were donated after dying from being run over. Two of them had small nematode adults in the epithelial and connective tissues of the tongue. The diagnosis was based on the presence of eggs, observed in histological sections, and morphological characteristics of the nematodes in the tongue. Morphologically, this nematode has a body with transverse grooves, simple mouth opening and no lips, esophagus and stichosome with stichocytes and bacillary bands along the body, which is characteristic morphology of the family Capilariidae and genus Capillaria. The presence of this nematode in the tongue of C. thous is an extremely important fact that contributes to what is known about the biodiversity of zoonotic parasites in wild canid populations. However, an explanation for these findings remains unclear because, until now, this has not been observed in the biological cycle of the species. Keywords: Nematoda, Capillaria, mammal, Amazon. Resumo O estudo de helmintos de animais selvagens vitimados por atropelamento, ainda é uma prática pouco comum, porém pode ser promissor, uma vez que permite a identificação de helmintos a partir de hospedeiros juvenis e adultos, e atendem às atuais discussões em bioética, as quais priorizam métodos alternativos para o uso de animais. Foram avaliados 3 exemplares de Cerdocyon thous provenientes de doação pós-óbito por atropelamento. Dois deles apresentaram pequenos nematoides adultos inseridos nos tecidos epitelial e conjuntivo da língua. O diagnóstico foi baseado na análise de cortes histológicos que evidenciaram a presença de ovos no interior do nematoide e nas características morfológicas gerais do mesmo. Morfologicamente estes nematoides apresentavam corpo com estrias transversais, abertura bucal simples e lábios ausentes, esôfago trichuroiude com a presença de esticócitos e bandas bacilares ao longo do corpo, característica morfologicamente sugestiva da família Capillariidae e do gênero Capillaria. A presença de nematoides inseridos na língua de C. thous é um fato de extrema importância para o conhecimento da biodiversidade de parasitos zoonóticos circulantes presentes em populações selvagens de canídeos. Porém, permanece obscura a explicação para tais achados, uma vez que tal evento não foi observado no ciclo biológico das espécies até o momento. Palavras-chave: Nematoda, Capillaria, mamífero, Amazônia. *Corresponding author: Elane Guerreiro Giese. Laboratório de Histologia e Embriologia Animal, Instituto da Saúde e Produção Animal, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia – UFRA, Av. Presidente Tancredo Neves, 2501, Terra Firme, CEP 66077-830, Belém, PA, Brasil. e-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 532 532/544 Pinheiro, R.H.S et al. Braz. J. Vet. Parasitol. Introduction To extract the tongues, used in morphological studies by LaPMA, an incision in the skin and muscles of the mentonian region was Studies involving the helminthofauna of wild animals are of made. The tongue was folded ventrally after cutting the lingual great importance for the conservation of species and for public frenulum and then cut caudally at the root to harvest the material. health, since some of these parasites can injure wild populations The material was fixed in a 10% formaldehyde solution for the and have zoonotic potential (LAFFERTY, 1997). histological analysis and in an AFA solution (93 parts 70% ethyl Some helminths that parasitize wild mammals belong to the alcohol, 5 parts formaldehyde, and 2 parts glacial acetic acid) for the family Capillaridae. The taxonomy of this family is still being morphological analysis. Samples of the nematodes were separated revised and the group contains many species in the genus Capillaria from the lingual tissue, dehydrated in an ethanol series, clarified (GUARDONE et al., 2013; FUEHRER, 2014), of which with lactophenol, placed on a microscope slide under a coverslip Capillaria hepatica Bancroft, 1893 is the most commonly cited as a temporary mount, observed using a light microscope, and in the literature as a parasite of various domestic and wild animals photographed with a LEICA DM2500 microscope with an image (FREITAS & LENT, 1936; ARAÚJO, 1967; SILVEIRA et al., capturing system. This work was conducted in the Laboratório de 1975; GALVÃO, 1981; CHIEFFI et al., 1981; MANDORINO Histologia e Embriologia Animal - Instituto da Saúde e Produção & REBOUÇAS, 1991; VICENTE et al., 1997; RUAS et al., Animal. For scanning electron microscopy, fragments of the tongue 2003). Capillaria comprises a complex group of parasites, which with nematodes were fixed in 10% formaldehyde, post-fixed in has resulted in the proposal of the genera Calodium, Eucoleus, 1% osmium tetroxide, critical point dried with CO2, coated with Paracapillaria, Pearsonema and Aonchotheca (GUARDONE et al., gold-palladium and analyzed with a VEGA 3 LMU/TESCAN 2013; FUEHRER, 2014). Within this complex, three species scanning electron microscope. This was done in the Laboratório are of zoonotic importance: Paracapillaria philippinensis de Microscopia Eletrônica de Varredura - Instituto da Saúde e (Syn. Capillaria philippinensis), Eucoleus aerophila (Syn. Capillaria Produção Animal at the Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia aerophila) and Calodium hepaticum (Syn. Capillaria hepatica, (UFRA), campus Belém. To avoid confusion, only names of genera Trichocephalus hepaticus Bancroft, 1893 and Hepaticola hepatica of helminths are abbreviated and not those of hosts. Hall 1916. Due to anthropic impacts, wild animals frequently come out Results of natural habitats in search of food and suffer injuries. Roads, starting at the construction phase, impact native fauna in several Of the three animals evaluated, two had six small adult ways, producing direct and indirect effects on populations, such as nematodes in the epithelial and conjunctive tissues of the tongue mortality from being run over, loss of habitat, dispersion of exotic (Figure 1A and 2A-C). The six nematodes formed galleries within species and intensification of the presence of humans (ASCENSÃO the epithelium (Figure 1D- E and 2B) and their dispersal had a & MIRA, 2006). The study of helminths in road-killed animals multifocal character. The diagnosis was based on the presence of is still uncommon; however, studies that use this methodology eggs (FERRER & CASTELLÀ, 1996), observed in histological are promising since they can identify these parasites in adults sections, and morphological characteristics of the nematodes in the and young individuals and meet the recommendations of current tongues, which were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy discussions on bioethics that prioritize alternative methods for (body surface) and light microscopy the use of animals (RICHINI-PEREIRA et al., 2006). In Brazil, During the histological analysis of the C. thous tongues, adult among the wild carnivores, Cerdocyon thous is one of the most female nematodes were observed in transverse sections. These were commonly road-killed species (MALHEIROS, 2004; PRADA, inserted in the basal layers of stratified epithelial tissue, with eggs 2004; PINOWSKI, 2005). both inside the parasite as well as egg isolates and clusters within Based on the few studies about the presence of capillariids in galleries developed by the nematodes (Figure 1D-E). The eggs wild animals, this study describes the first record in Brazil of a were barrel shaped with two polar opercula with plugs on the Capillariidae nematode parasitizing the tongue of C. thous, in the ends, which are diagnostic characteristics of the genus Capillaria municipality of Paragominas in Pará State, in addition to collecting (Figure 1B-C). The size and the number of nematodes inserted and analyzing retrospective data on the fauna of helminths of in the tegument of the coating of the tongue did not cause C. thous in Brazil. inflammatory reactions and did not affect the morphology of the lingual papillae (Figure 1D). Materials and Methods A light microscopy analysis of a fragment of a nematode, clarified with Amman’s lactophenol, was conducted on the anterior We evaluated the tongues of three animals (C. thous) that region